MSc/PgDip/PgCert Charity Resource Management
Part-time
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Business and management
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This course is for people working for UK charities or organisations with charitable status such as local voluntary organisations community organisations partnership bodies major fundraising charities faith-based organisations grant-making foundations service-providing agencies. The issues you explore are relevant to charities large and small.
You may be responsible for managing the full range of resource issues in your organisation. Or, you may be working in areas such as fundraising development finance and accounting managing people strategic management but want to develop your expertise more widely.
This course is also relevant to those advising other organisations on charitable issues, whether you are based in a voluntary organisation or working as an independent consultant.
Sustainability in the sector is becoming more important with many charities placing greater emphasis on trading and social enterprise activities.
You study eight modules, each taught as a four-day block, with preparation and follow up work. Five of the modules are specific to charities and three common to our organisational development and change programme studied by students in other organisations. Most of the assessed work will allow you to analyse issues in your own organisation.
You also complete a dissertation on a issue selected by you. This could be in an area such as charity fundraising, charity accounting, governance or strategic change in the charity sector.
Charity resource management information sheet
For more information on attendance dates and fee information download the charity resource management information sheet.
2012 entry visit www.shu.ac.uk/_assets/pdf/MSc_CRM_insert_sheet_2012.pdf
2013 entry visit www.shu.ac.uk/_assets/pdf/MSc_CRM_insert_sheet_2013.pdf
Related course
This course is specifically for those in the charity sector, but if you are based in a non-charitable third sector organisation we offer the MSc Co-operative and Social Enterprise Management.
The new Charities Act 2011 has modernised charity law. The changing Government agenda towards the charity sector creates major new challenges for charities of all kinds. Sector specialists in charity finance and fundraising are in great demand.
Find out more about MSc/PgDip/PgCert Charity Resource Management
Part-time typically two and a half years
It is also possible to take the course full-time over one year.
The PgCert and PgDip stages each have four modules. The taught classes for each module are in blocks, usually lasting four days from Tuesday to Friday. Each stage takes around nine months.
Starts January
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £3,060 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MSc stages. Scholarships may be available for those in charities with limited resources.
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
By coursework assignments, apart from one examination. The assignments normally focus on issues in your own organisation, for example development of a fundraising strategy.
If you complete the eight modules to postgraduate diploma stage with an average mark of at least 50% overall and a minimum of 45% for each module, you are eligible to apply for the Diploma in Charity Accounting (DChA). The DChA is awarded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. All award holders will receive the designatory letters, DChA, to use after their name and a free subscription to the ICAEW Charity and Voluntary Sector Group for up to 12 months (applies to new subscribers only). They will also have the opportunity to appear on the DChA award holders online register.
If you complete the module in charity structures, regulation and accounting (minimum 50 % mark) you gain the Association of Charity Independent Examiners (ACIE) Charity Accounting Certificate. This is an important step towards full membership of the ACIE.
The fundraising modules can also lead to qualifications with the Institute of Fundraising (final details of the IoF qualifications for 2013 are subject to confirmation). Professional membership of the IoF is a vital qualification for those working in charity fundraising.
For ACIE and IoF qualifications you need to be an associate member of the relevant professional body. You have the chance to join at the start of the course.
Sean Kelly
MSc Charity Resource Management
`I was delighted to arrive home from work this evening and receive the final results for my dissertation and Masters. It was very exciting to learn that I had achieved a mark that I felt was never attainable when I began the course.
`I would like to thank Gareth Morgan and Tracey Chadwick-Coule for all they have done to help me attain the distinction and for making my studies so enjoyable. I have to say that I really enjoyed the whole experience from start to finish and would happily recommend the course to anyone else I know looking to expand their knowledge of the third sector.
Susan Parker
MSc Charity Resource Management
`The MSc Charity Resource Management has given me a whole host of skills and new understanding which I have been able to apply both in my work and volunteering. Many assume that working for the church is unlike the rest of the charity sector, but through this course I have been able to demonstrate the role the church has to play in the sector and how this compares to other charities.
The course was hard work, it took a significant amount of commitment to see it through, but finally graduating last year, and hopefully seeing a revised version of my dissertation being published in an academic journal this year, have made it all worthwhile!'
David Smith
MSc Charity Resource Management
`I have to say, the MSc certainly helped during my interview for the position of Chief Executive at the newly merged York Mind/Our Celebration. The competition for the role was between two Chief Officers and the knowledge and skills from the course helped support the evidence I had from my past achievements and work record.
The modules we covered fitted nicely with the questions they asked so all I had to do was think back to the assignments and I had ready made answers! Plus, the professional memberships, ACIE, IoF and CIM all helped.'
Profiles
Sean Kelly
MSc Charity Resource Management
Susan Parker
MSc Charity Resource Management
David Smith
MSc Charity Resource Management
Centre for Voluntary Sector Research
Sheffield Hallam is one of the UK's leading institutions for work on the charity and voluntary sectors. We have 13 staff active in our cross-faculty Centre for Voluntary Sector Research (CVSR).
Most of the staff teaching on this course are involved in CVSR and the course content draws extensively on their research experience. Read CVRS staff profiles for more information about their work or view examples of CVSR research reports.
